Rushmore: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [Soundtrack]

rushmore: original motion picture soundtrack [soundtrack]

Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
The Rushmore soundtrack manages to pleasantly skirt the line between sentiment and sentimentality with a nuanced, eminently listenable combo of score and song. The songs mostly blend raw, adolescent urges and insecurity with an awkward grace. Though composed primarily of popular music from the 1960s, none of the selections is a hit of the expected Big Chill variety. In fact, compiler Randall Poster proves himself a '60s pop connoisseur, including little-known gems such as Cat Stevens's buoyant, hummable "Here Comes My Baby" (covered by Yo La Tengo on Fakebook) and the Who 's revved-up, intentionally silly proto-opera "A Quick One While He's Away." The bossa nova folk-pop of Unit 4+2's "Concrete & Clay" is lovingly contrasted by the Creation's blistering, feedback-enhanced hit-that-never-was "Making Time." Devo founder Mark Mothersbaugh's incidental music is nothing short of delightful, but the Rugrats composer clearly comes by whimsy easily. The intriguing thing about Mothersbaugh's score--seven snippets from which are sprinkled throughout the disc--is that it complements the archival tunes while combining Beethoven-lite flourishes and jazzy instrumentation with percolating mod keyboards. Like the film itself, this soundtrack is an inspired, left-field effort, and it's difficult to plot out its many charms. --Mike McGonigal

Entertainment Weekly
For anyone who left the theater singing along to the Faces' "Ooh La La," it's an essential soundtrack.

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Rushmore: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [Soundtrack]

Average customer rating:

Proper length and sequence for this magnificent soundtrack
Yeah!
A Rather Fair Balance
great, unique soundtrack for a great, unique movie
Very Unique Soundtrack

Rushmore: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Fontana London
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000HZPY
Release Date: 1999-02-02

Tracks:

Hardest Geometry Problem in the World - Mark Mothersbaugh
Making Time - Creation
Concrete & Clay - Unit 4 + 2
Nothing In This World Can Stop Me Worrin' Bout That Girl - The Kinks
Sharp Little Guy - Mark Mothersbaugh
The Lad With the Silver Button - Mark Mothersbaugh
A Summer Song - Chad & Jeremy
Edward Appleby (In Memoriam) - Mark Mothersbaugh
Here Comes My Baby - Cat Stevens
A Quick One While He's Away - The Who
'Snowflake Music' From Bottlerocket - Mark Mothersbaugh
Piranhas are a Very Tricky Species - Mark Mothersbaugh
Blinuet - Zoot Sims
Friends Like You, Who Needs Friends - Mark Mothersbaugh
Rue St. Vincent - Yves Montand
Kite Flying Society - Mark Mothersbaugh
The Wind - Cat Stevens
Oh Yoko - John Lennon
Ooh La La - The Faces
Margaret Yang's Theme - Mark Mothersbaugh

Amazon.com

The Rushmore soundtrack manages to pleasantly skirt the line between sentiment and sentimentality with a nuanced, eminently listenable combo of score and song. The songs mostly blend raw, adolescent urges and insecurity with an awkward grace. Though composed primarily of popular music from the 1960s, none of the selections is a hit of the expected Big Chill variety. In fact, compiler Randall Poster proves himself a '60s pop connoisseur, including little-known gems such as Cat Stevens's buoyant, hummable "Here Comes My Baby" (covered by Yo La Tengo on Fakebook) and the Who 's revved-up, intentionally silly proto-opera "A Quick One While He's Away." The bossa nova folk-pop of Unit 4+2's "Concrete & Clay" is lovingly contrasted by the Creation's blistering, feedback-enhanced hit-that-never-was "Making Time." Devo founder Mark Mothersbaugh's incidental music is nothing short of delightful, but the Rugrats composer clearly comes by whimsy easily. The intriguing thing about Mothersbaugh's score--seven snippets from which are sprinkled throughout the disc--is that it complements the archival tunes while combining Beethoven-lite flourishes and jazzy instrumentation with percolating mod keyboards. Like the film itself, this soundtrack is an inspired, left-field effort, and it's difficult to plot out its many charms. --Mike McGonigal

Customer Reviews:

Proper length and sequence for this magnificent soundtrack.......2007-07-09

Here are all the songs and the order in which they appear:

1.Hardest Geometry Problem In The World - Mark Mothersbaugh
2.Sharp Little Guy - Mark Mothersbaugh
3.Making Time - Creation
4.The Lad With The Silver Button - Mark Mothersbaugh
5.Take Ten - Paul Desmond (*)
6.Concrete & Clay - Unit 4 + 2
7.Nothing In This World Can Stop Me Worrin' Bout That Girl - The Kinks
8.Edward Appleby (In Memoriam) - Mark Mothersbaugh
9.A Summer Song - Chad & Jeremy
10.Blinuet - Zoot Sims
11.Piranhas Are A Very Tricky Species - Mark Mothersbaugh
12.Here Comes My Baby - Cat Stevens
13.Friends Like You, Who Needs Friends - Mark Mothersbaugh
14.Jersey Thursday - Donovan (*)
15.A Quick One, While He's Away (live) - The Who(* the ragged-but-right version featured in the film is from The Rolling Stones' Rock 'n Roll Circus, NOT the Live at Leeds version found on this soundtrack)
16.I Am Waiting - The Rolling Stones (*)
17.Snowflake Music from Bottlerocket - Mark Mothersbaugh
18.Rue St. Vincent - Yves Montand
19.Kite Flying Society - Mark Mothersbaugh
20.The Wind - Cat Stevens
21.Oh Yoko! - John Lennon
22.Manoir De Mes Reves - Django Reinhardt (*)
23.Ooh La La - Faces
24.Margaret Yang's Theme - Mark Mothersbaugh

I've listened to this longer and more frequently than any other soundtrack. Pitch-perfect for the summer time.

Yeah!.......2006-11-10

The soundtrack is great. Everytime I listen to it I can't but help to think of the movie. Which is a good thing.

A Rather Fair Balance.......2006-10-30

I like soundtracks that weave in the scoring as well as the soundtrack numbers. Unsurprisingly The Royal Tenenbaums soundtrack has the same balance. I wonder if Wes Anderson prefers this as well. There are some great classics that are gathered together on this album, to name a few: Here Comes My Baby (Cat Stevens), Oh Yoko (John Lennon), Ooh La La (The Faces), and the lovely beat of Concrete & Clay (Unit 4 + 2). I think this soundtrack really shows how picking the right support songs can really make a film work.

great, unique soundtrack for a great, unique movie.......2006-09-16

This accomplishes what a great soundtrack should do... enhance the movie, offer an interesting collection of songs and intoduce the listener to works that you would not have otherwise listen to.

The theme of the music seems to be 60's style, very Brittish pop.

"Making Time" by the Creation is a raw, punkish song from a group long forgotten. It is used commercially all of the time and often misunderstood for the Kinks. Its a rock and roll rave up that will rock your stereo off.

Chad and Jeremy's "Summer Wind" is a wimpy, melodic chestnut that you would never own up to liking but is a certain guilty pleasure.

Cat Stevens has 2 cuts. "The Wind" a fine short song on many compilations and the more interesting "Here comes my baby" which was done before he established his trademark sound.

"Oh Yoko" is a song that never did anything for me until I saw it used in the movie. Oh the power of film!

"Ooh La la" by the Faces is an uplifting song which is used in the same manner in the close of the film.

There are in between ditties by former Devo man Mark Mothersbaugh. This music was more effective in the film than listening to it in your car.

Overall, this soundtrack is a top notch soundtrack.

Another good soundtrack by the same director is the "Royal Tannenbaums"

Very Unique Soundtrack.......2006-05-03

This is a very unique collection of songs. I enjoyed the obscure Cat Stevens and John Lennon cuts very much. Look forward to seeing the movie.

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